Cognition
Software Engineer, Infrastructure
$260K–$300K
San Francisco +1 · On-site · Full-time · Posted Aug 6, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco
New York City - Education
- BS, MS, or equivalent in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related technical discipline from a highly selective program.
About the job
Build and operate the compute, orchestration, networking, and platform infrastructure supporting Cognition’s AI products, including agent execution at scale.
What you'll do
- Design and operate sandboxed compute environments, including VM orchestration, container management, resource scheduling, and isolation.
- Build internal developer infrastructure, including CI/CD pipelines, deployment systems, and tooling.
- Improve reliability and observability through SLOs, monitoring, alerting, incident response, and postmortems.
What they ask for
- Experience designing and operating large-scale distributed infrastructure.
- Hands-on proficiency with Kubernetes, a cloud platform (AWS, GCP, or Azure), and infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform.
- Proficiency in Python and ability to own complex systems codebases.
- Experience with sandboxing, network isolation, or secure multi-tenant compute.
Nice to have
- Prior experience at a frontier AI lab, applied AI company, or developer tools company.
- BS, MS, or equivalent in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related technical discipline from a highly selective program.
Pay
$260,000 - $300,000 USD base salary
Tools
Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Azure, Terraform, Python
AI focus
Build infrastructure for AI agents, including sandboxed execution environments that run agent tasks at scale.
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